Introduction to New Relic Alerts

New Relic Alerts is a flexible and centralized notification system that unlocks the operational potential of New Relic. You can manage alert policies and alert conditions focused on the metrics you care about most. This includes:

Applications monitored by New Relic APM

Client-side metrics monitored by New Relic Browser

New Relic Mobile, including external services

Hosts monitored by New Relic Infrastructure

Key transactions monitored by New Relic APM and New Relic Browser

Plugins from New Relic's Plugin Central

Monitors from New Relic Synthetics

Compatibility and requirements

If you have a paid subscription to any New Relic product, your account has access to New Relic Alerts for all products (both paid and unpaid). Baseline alerting is only available if you have Pro level accounts.

Workflow

Good alerts are about notifying individuals or teams about changes in the systems for which they are responsible. With New Relic Alerts (alerts.newrelic.com), you can follow an alert from the initial warning to its final resolution, and examine patterns to help avoid alertable situations in the future.

New Relic Alerts allows you to decide what are the best alerting scenarios for any situation. To help you get started, see New Relic's best practices for alert policies (defining policies based on your architecture or your staffing requirements, deciding how many alert policies and conditions you may need, selecting effective channels for alert notifications).

You decide what

Your alert policies define the conditions that you or your team will be notified about when an event violates the selected thresholds.

Whether your architecture has few components or many, New Relic Alerts provides configurable alerting solutions. This easily allows you to adjust alerting to selected entities within your environment and scale with the growth of your organization.

Personnel involved in resolving the problem can have direct access to your runbook procedures for this type of incident. Also, if they are in different geographic locations, they can easily communicate by referring to an incident's UTC time, or by switching to their own time zone.

You decide when

By setting your policies' incident preference, you can control how many notifications you will receive by choosing how the violations group together. You can also decide whether to set a Critical level for alert notifications, or set both Warning and Critical thresholds.

New Relic Alerts provides detailed views of incidents while they are in progress. You can review the event log while an incident is open and after it closes.

You decide how

Using New Relic Alerts' intuitive user interface at alerts.newrelic.com, you can associate resources in many New Relic products with alert policies and conditions. And, by reviewing events across products, you can easily identify potential problem patterns, and evaluate how to adjust your alerting policies as needed. This powerful flexibility makes it even easier to organize your alerting configuration and reduce redundancy.

You can alert on many metrics, including response time, throughput, external services, custom metrics, etc.

Flexible policies

A single resource (entity) can be included in many policies and many conditions, allowing for very flexible alerting to suit your needs. For limits on the number of conditions and policies, see the minimum and maximum values documentation.

Flexible conditions

Alert policies include several options to configure conditions. You can also include a runbook URL, making remediation actions and documentation easily accessible to the incident responder.